Agradecimientos:
This work was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Innovation under projects TEC2008-06715 and TEC2007-64731/TCM and by the EU’s 7th Frame Programme under
contract HEALTH-F5-2008-201792
Monte Carlo methods provide a flexible and rigorous solution to the problem of light transport in turbid media, which enable approaching complex geometries for a closed analytical solution is not feasible. The simulator implements local rules of
propagation iMonte Carlo methods provide a flexible and rigorous solution to the problem of light transport in turbid media, which enable approaching complex geometries for a closed analytical solution is not feasible. The simulator implements local rules of
propagation in the form of probability density functions that depend on the local optical properties of the tissue.
This work presents a flexible simulator that can be applied in multiple applications related to optical tomography. In particular,
unlike previous codes, the simulator explicitly supports fluorescent-tissues and variance reduction and code parallelization techniques are implemented in order to speed up the execution with fluorochrome-labelled agents.
The simulator is validated with simple geometries for which an analytical solution exists, as well as with an experimental
polyester resin based optical phantom.[+][-]
Nota:
Proceeding of: 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), Orlando, Florida, 25-31 October 2009
